Compare the transformation of a plant cell with the transformation of an animal cell.

The transformation of plant cells occurs when a recombinant plasmid of an Agrobacterium, which has an inactive tumor-producing gene, infects the cell. In addition, another way for the transformation to occur in when the plant cell’s chromosomes would take the recombinant plasmid and regenerate into a new plant.  On the other hand, animal cells are transformed once the DNA is injected directly into the nucleus of the egg cell. This process triggers the enzymes to help insert the foreign DNA into the chromosome.

Plant transformation is a method to insert DNA from another plant, into the genome of a plant of interest. Transgenic plants are those plants having genomes modified through genetic engineering techniques either by the addition of a foreign genes or removal of a certain detrimental genes.

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